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Mucked around local today thinkn bombing range tomorrow

chop wrote:Mucked around local today thinkn bombing range tomorrow

*Cough* that's illegal, and you probably shouldn't post about it on here *cough*

4wd related, I used brute force to bend the top alty mount on the Lada. Now the belt is pretty much perfectly straight

Also took the head off my Mini. Pretty casual day tbh

Oh yes of coarse,im meant up the beach

went duck shooting got 49 ducks for the day

fitted some wrx seats in the Mutant(zuk hybrid) did some wiring on the gauges....got a rebuilt Warn winch of tardme for 400bucks was a good buy

Fitted rocker shaft off spare truck got rid off that anoying tic when ideling so all good now

cleaned and painted the gearbox for the Suzuki today. That is all.

Pulled the sump off my suzuki and resealed it. Begone oil leaks

battery and glow plugs replaced, elbow into turbo was shot so that was replaced too, stripped off the rear bumper to start bar work and replaced viscous fan too
fark the windscreen wipers i say

went up thompsons in my zuki, got about half way down the te aroha and turned around and on the way up managed to shear off my left free wheeling up... also lost a wheel nut
lesson of the day= check all nuts before and after each trip

spent about a million hours pulling apart and unseizeing and rebuilding hundreds of idlers and tensioners to swap out the farked alternator thats full of woodhill alternator killing shit then spent another million hours tracing out the arb compressor wiring testing everything untill I found everything was ok and the stoopid relay had died then fixed a pile of other small shit, cleaned the mud out of the radiator, checked all the fluids and pumped the tahs up all so I can take the truck out for a snotting tomorrow and then repeat the above process waterblasting it all down again fixing another pile of other shit

Sadam_Husain wrote: woodhill alternator killing shit

We call that shit "grinding paste".. It likes to eat brakes to

LOLYF wrote:We call that shit "grinding paste".. It likes to eat brakes to

haha yeah I wasnt in that hole for long and now I've got big pools of oil on the shed floor under the front pinion


I hope you copped a few dents and bashes on your truck it was looking far too shiney at the start

Watched my Bro and Nephew compete at Karate comp this morning then put two new radius arms in the Prado....
And my GPS tracker / alarm arrived in the mail....($60 used off Trade me)
Will fit it next week....
Sunday its finish off the water temp gauge and replace the brake pads..
Not enough time to replace the wipers...(big job that one)
And help my eldest fix his Motorbike....

Sadam_Husain wrote:I hope you copped a few dents and bashes on your truck it was looking far too shiney at the start

Sure did
The drivers side has a particularly large dent in the shape of a pine tree

89surf wrote:went duck shooting got 49 ducks for the day

thats a blady good count. all that pluckin and guttin.... I dont envy you right now.


Hit the juice with a dozen mate on friday night.

Bit of preventitive maintance on the shitta for the snow season coming up. Did waterpump, thermostat and replaced all the wierd twist up lada hose clamps with better ones, started making up a holder for the thermo fan switch by welding bolt onto bit of pip to T into rad hose and would ya gess it, farken welder ran outa wire again f*#k F*#k f*#k.

work tomorow

Why don't you just put a manual switch in the cab?

Just look at the temp gauge, and if it's getting hot, switch the fan on and leave it on. Then if you come to some water, switch it off

That's what mine is like,a nd it's so damn simple, and works a treat

Today I ground some rust off the Lada. Then painted over it. Fun stuff

Also figured out how to keep the bonnet up using a cable tie, and removed both the master cylinders. Guess I'll have to get round to getting some new ones sometime soon...

Bugga! one number off 1st divsion! why was my 11 not a 7 !!!!.Oh well back to work

got the hilux holding water & running

finish the exhaust & can try to tune it (350 chev on open headers too noisy inside the workshop) chuffed cuz the injection works

exhaust, handbrake & seat mounts and she's finished - i think

big thanks to clive, reece, noel & buzz for the work they have put in while i drink piss & give bad advice.

weemsy

SP450andLE wrote:Why don't you just put a manual switch in the cab?

Just look at the temp gauge, and if it's getting hot, switch the fan on and leave it on. Then if you come to some water, switch it off

That's what mine is like,a nd it's so damn simple, and works a treat

yea Ive got a switch in the cab to switch them off for water crossings.
I want the thermo switch so I dont have to keep checking the guage.
Besides its alwase eventually gona happen where you forget to turn them on and there goes the headgasket.
for something so simple to hookup can save alot of heatake

Went to murawai with camel and split a trans cooler hose,bugger

Pulled a Suz out of the tuki Tuki. Had water flowing thru windows. "a little damp"

Testing a new 'lure' on their rods

ladeda wrote:yea Ive got a switch in the cab to switch them off for water crossings.
I want the thermo switch so I dont have to keep checking the guage.
Besides its alwase eventually gona happen where you forget to turn them on and there goes the headgasket.
for something so simple to hookup can save alot of heatake

Hmm I guess so.

Then again, I'm sure that overheating was a factory option

Got wof on Hilux after three trips back to 3 different inspectors at same place .First warrant on farm hack for 12 months

Yip , Went to Muriwai with Chop .. Did some of this ...

Jokes, Was more like this




And just before we went home, Chop decided to do some planting..


AndI finished installing the new clutch on saturday arvo ..
(old one in photo)
This wasn't fun at all, I Don't know how some people do it on the floor / mid bush , crazy!

Went to Meremere and watched the short course racing.

89surf wrote:went duck shooting got 49 ducks for the day

isnt 10 the limit?? or was there 5 of you shooting??

25 each is the limit

wopass wrote:

89surf wrote:went duck shooting got 49 ducks for the day

isnt 10 the limit?? or was there 5 of you shooting??

It vaires from area to area, dependant on where they eat the most!